Dr. Kathryn Tinckam is  a Transplant Nephrologist  and Co-Director of the HLA Laboratory at the University Health Network, and Associate Professor at the University of Toronto. She is also Medical Advisor inTransplantation for Canadian Blood Services, responsible for interprovincial listing and allocation and the Canadian Transplant Registry. Her clinical and research interests encompass the standardization of HLA laboratory testing, clinical programs to increase transplant in highly sensitized patients, the contribution of HLA antibodies to antibody mediated rejection pathways and outcomes and the management of HLA related alloimmune injury. She is the Secretary of the Canadian Society of Transplantation.